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Anders Bixbe

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    Playng Cornet and Banjo to popular music from the 1925-1939 era. Making UHD 4K videos. Retired physician.

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  1. I use Cyberlink Power Director 16 and a desktop pc with GTX1060 and hardware acceleration. No need for transcoding HEVC H.265 files. I render my NX1 4K files with 128 Mbps in less than real time. Text, transitions and edited clips on 2 timelines take 0,6X real time (20 minutes takes 12 minutes to complete). In the Cyberlink forum they say that editing on a laptop is hard to make the HWA to work though. I upload my videos to YouTube and there is no need for transcoding there either.
  2. No viewfinder = no steady handheld shots..
  3. My friend has a 1440p Mac laptop and it can not play YouTube 4K with Safari. His Mac plays fine 4K YT with Chrome. That´might be the reason you don´t get the VP9 codec (which now is visible again in the nerd info with my pc). The videos you posted are in 4K 2160p VP9 with Googles Chrome browser which is the browser recommended for YouTube.
  4. My channel has not many views but I always got the VP9 codec from the start with my hundreds of 4K videos. They have recently stopped showing the VP9 in the nerd info. Instead they name the codec 313/opus 251. In Marks video it´s 315/opus 251. I never use any program for uploading. I just upload my original HEVC 120Mbps edited files.
  5. I have a 2.40:1 screen so I only watch NX1 videos in the theater (JVC projector) when I add 2.40:1 black bars to them. The Panasonic TV though is superior in image quality. Colour tweaking is easy on both and with gamma DR on the NX I never need any grading (shame on me) and I try to avoid low light. It´s fantastic with NX1 EVF in P mode that it always shows me how the exposure will look like so I can tweak it to my liking.
  6. I used to go to the Cinerama theater in 1962 to watch Ben Hur, Spartacus and Lawrence of Arabia and I was kind of frustrated that I could not produce anything like it on my double 8 film camera. Yes, I have made films and videos since 1961 ( amateur, though). Not until 2015 when I got the NX1 I could get a bit closer to that cinematic feeling with the immense detail I saw in the theater 1962. My jaw was on the floor at both events. Now, I know that "cinematic" has different meanings for us here. I used to be a DVD freak and was tweaking with CRT projectors in my own theater and I know how oversharpening and edge enhancement looks like. Now with most recent blurays that is not a problem anymore. I just can not see any oversharpening with my NX1 videos in my theater with LVC X7000 projector or my Panasonic DX900 VA panel FALD UHD TV.
  7. This camera is ideal for prosumer or amateur videographers." Point and shoot" with continuous autofocus (CAF), gamma DR all parameters at zero, dual antishake (OIS+DIS) and P mode. This video was shot handheld with the EVF and the 16-50mm S lens. The resolution is superior to anything I have seen ( 70mm film in a Cinerama or Imax theater not counted). You guys might say it´s "oversharpened" but I bet in that case you don´t have the up to date display which is an oled or VA panel FALD UHD TV. Yesterday I shot a video with the 50-150mm S lens and it is on YouTube also.
  8. In sunny weather I got crushed blacks and blown highlight with the normal gamma setting so I only used it the first weeks in june and july 2015. I instead have used Gamma DR ever since and solved the problem.
  9. I never hacked my NX1:s but I have only seen macroblocking when watching my 400+ YouTube videos on a 1080p or 1440p monitor. I can see macroblocking when the internet speed goes down but never on my original files from my UHD TV:s at 2160p. I sit close 6,2 feet (2 meters) from my 65" TV that I use as my monitor.
  10. Sorry for the bad screenshot. I thought I had to make it smaller. This one (correct size) shows the grey bars better.
  11. No. I don´t see the YouTube symbol with Chromecast Ultra. My symbol is the Panasonic info top left corner. When it shows HDR the backlight and contrast goes up to max 100. There are other channels on YouTube like 4KEye which claims HDR videos but they don´t go into HDR mode (on my TV) like the HDR channel does. They are the only Youtube channel that I have found that shows HDR correct with good blacks but most often too vivid colors. My FALD TV needs Chromecast Ultra to watch HDR but if one has an oled with pc connected one can right click the YouTube nerd info and see the codec shift from VP9 to VP9.2 when it is in HDR mode.
  12. I watched it on my Panasonic DX900 TV and Chromecast Ultra and it goes into HDR mode automatically ( info top left corner) just like in the YouTube HDR channel. I also get bad blacks and the grey 4K maskings though.
  13. I suspect that seeing artefacts from NX1 4k UHD files are due to displays, browsers or pc:s not beeing up to date.
  14. Go to Stockholm and by it at Fotokungen.com new for SEK 6990 and with the PZ lens SEK 7990. They don´t ship abroad.
  15. I have the NX1 since june and I use it only for video UHD 4K. At first I used the standard gamma and got crushed blacks and blown out highlights. Then I experimented with different settings and soon I found that gamma DR at default zero looks great for my taste. My videos can be seen at YouTube (same name there). I use Cyberlink Power Director 14 which edits my files to H265 80Mbps and H264 XAVC-S 100Mbps in 1,8-2X realtime. Sometimes I use TMPGEnc6 which also edits HEVC without conversion needed but it has not hardware acceleration. I haven´t tried any color grading because I have not seen any good results anywhere. I know everybody here also always sets the sharpness down to -10. I want to keep the fantastic details on the NX1 so I leave it at zero. I see no artifacts from that. At least not in the original HEVC files or renderings. YouTube became much better last year with the VP9 codec of the HTML5 player especially when the connection speed is over 150-200Mbps. I avoid watching early evenings when the internet is too busy. The gamma DR at default zero gives me super sharp images with depth almost like 3D. The graded images I have seen made from flat settings or LUTS always look soft and like a gray membrane or coating over it. The colours look odd too like the Hollywood movies changed at the turn of the millenium. Skintones became orange in the blockbuster movies. I used to have CRT projectors and their colour saturation and depth were so superior to the digital projectors from around 1990-2010. Colour grading with The NX1 is like that. It looks "digital" to me. Not natural. This is just my opinion and taste. Some day someone might make me change my opinion. I am swedish so my english is not so fluent.
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